KITA (Chairman: Jin Sik Yoon) co-hosted Smart City & Construction Open Innovation Day with Seoul Business Agency (SBA), Seoul Centre for Creative Business & Innovation, Gyeonggi Centre for Creative Business & Innovation and Incheon Centre for Creative Business & Innovation on Monday, 26 October at KITA Startup Branch in COEX, Seoul.
This event was organised to connect the needs of large-scale companies specialising in smart city & construction sector and start-ups armed with innovative technologies, thereby offering PoC opportunities and promoting collaboration for commercialisation. A total of 100 people from conglomerates, investor companies and start-ups attended the event.
KITA Senior Executive Director Seok-min Jang mentioned, "We hope large-scale companies can incorporate innovative ideas and start-ups to gain momentum for growth through this event, which will help upgrade Korea's construction sector competitiveness on the global stage" and added, "We are committed to offering follow-up support to encourage today's discussions for potential collaboration to translate into PoC opportunities and commercialisation."